Christmas Cookies

Alicia, our wonderful Christmas elf has been very busy this month.  This week she is making cookies and now candy and caramel corn.  We came across these cool bowls in our local warehouse store and bought all of them to fill with goodies for our neighbors and home teachers and such.  Even bought a couple for myself.  They were about the same price as those plastic snowmen and santas that we usually buy.  They will make wonderful trifle bowls and I'm sure you all know my obsession with finding the perfect trifle bowl and recipe.....  even though I've actually only eaten trifle once or twice...  So we put our Clementines in one and they look really pretty.

Alicia's "new" mixer getting broken it - I think I see flour on it ! ! !

Real eggs - just like Martha Stewart uses

Stacks and stacks and trays of cookies.  Today she made chocolate cookies that look just like these ginger snaps.  We watched a Paula Dean cookie special and learned a new way to cool these cookies in a roll and then slice and roll them.  Much quicker and better looking than the old way we have always done them of scooping them by hand and then rolling them.  A REAL time saver, too.

The bowls turned out to be made by IKEA ! ! !  Since we don't have access to an IKEA in Alaska, it was so exciting to have something from the coolest store in the nation without having to go to the biggest store in the nation to find it.  double score.